To understand a system, you should basically understand the directory structure and its organization. This is an essential knowledge for developers, such as where the development module is eventually installed, and how the topic themes is configured to be enabled.
Today to share with you is actually a note record, is to see an article about the App_Data directory structure, annotated some other experience:
Orchard Web site App_Data directory of documents introduced
In fact, for me now:
Logs Directory : This is the directory where the system logs are stored. Review the log file to check what errors are occurring in the system running. The default file name is marked by date.
Here you can see all the error messages, such as the module error, add alternative problem.
sites\default\orchard.sdf: If you select the SQL CE database when creating the sub-station, this file will be created. This is a SQL CE database file. Saves all data for the current system.
You can open and view your edits through Microsoft WebMatrix.
Additional Resource Links:
Official introduction to the App_Data catalogue
Orchard Structure of source code (for version 1.1)
Off Topic
Learning or studying a whole new system, the most powerful is to list some problems and then try to solve and implement them. From the beginning to learn from the start, the system is not realistic, the time is not enough, the interest will not be brought up. Of course this is the case for a certain base of developers-haha, this article on the exhortation novice programmers do not involve Ocrhard-
Write in the Orchard1.7 version before the release of some feelings.